I just did a year in Philadelphia. I never watched so many pirated movies in my life. They're played over the entire jail at once---including in the "bubble" where the policia hang out---often movies that were just recently released into theatres. In addition, they constantly played the most violent, crime-glorifying movies in existence, as if they were encouraging recidivism. They played The Wolf of Wall Street before it was in theatres and, get this, there were inmates complaining about the gratuitous adult content (there are lots of pious inmates).

He had previously done time (where, we don't know) for selling pirated movies. This time around, he was in for violating his parole after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual conduct with a minor.

I know it's tangential to the actual point, and I know that nobody ever likes that one irritating pedant commenter who actually read the article, but is it to much to ask for you guys to read the article before blogging about it?

He better hope that he does not go back to the same slam if this gets any traction, because "the guy who got our movies taken away" is another way of saying "public toilet and duty-punch" for the entire yard.

When I was on jury duty, waiting to be called in for a trial, I was thinking "I think this counts as a 'public performance' which these movies are not licensed for," when they were showing DVDs at one end of the jury waiting area.